I’m leading a workshop on liveblogging starting at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time for the newsroom staff of the New Haven Register. The Register is livestreaming if you’d like to watch.
I would appreciate your contributions of liveblogging tips or examples on Twitter using #liveblogtips or on the liveblog about the liveblogging workshop.
Here are my slides for the workshop:
Steve,
I’ve read your blog for several months now and enjoy it, but this is the first time I’m commenting. Just a few thoughts to add. … First I wanted to say I’m doing a liveblogging seminar for our staff at the Detroit Free Press a few times over the next month and found this post very useful. You’ve succinctly captured many of the things I planned to talk about.
We have a couple staffers who are excellent at liveblogging — our sports staff regularly live blogs games, for example. The ones who aren’t regularly tell me they are, frankly, worried that they won’t be able to “concentrate” on the event at hand and process it and analyze it enough to produce a write-thru afterward. What I tell them is to look at liveblogging in some cases as public note-taking. I’ve had some success with a couple folks in the past doing a practice run where they liveblog a TV show and then do a story afterward and we walk through it together to deconstruct the experience.
One of the other things we’ve done with liveblogging recently is combining aspects of social media aggregation into the liveblog, and that has helped some reporters feel like the weight of being the sole source of information in covering a live event is lifted. A couple examples (experiments for us) are when we liveblogged the bizarre trial of controversial pastor Terry Jones in Dearborn, Mich., and when we liveblogged the Detroit Tigers opening day. It’s been uncomfortable for some staffers to see posts from other media organizations or regular people alongside their writing, but it’s becoming more natural.
Tigers opening day: http://bit.ly/kf4NvP
Terry Jones: http://bit.ly/mLEPiV
For doing the liveblogging in combination with social media aggregation, we have really enjoyed using ScribbleLive.
Stefanie Murray
Director of digital audience development
Detroit Free Press
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Stefanie:
I’ve used my CiL liveblogging as notes for a championship basketball game.
Here’s a link to the story: http://www.advarsitysports.com/articles/chico-1250-spartans-stalled.html
Not my greatest work, and being a small paper we can’t edit as much as we’d like, but a serviceable story.
If anything, using a liveblog as notes makes a reporter more effective as a note-taker, since your need to constantly update requires you to post in more detail and minutiae than notes might otherwise have. That, of course, depends on the note-taking habits of the reporter, but the possibility is there.
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